Fortnitemares 2024 – everything included in the Fortnite Halloween update this week

Fortnite's yearly Halloween lawsuit is backmost again this twelvemonth but it's dropping earlier than Epic Games primitively planned.

Epic Games has brought guardant the yearly Fortnite Halloween lawsuit which means you person much clip to indulge your spooky broadside this month.

Fortnitemares is the yearly Fortnite Halloween bonanza that sees spooy skins and quests to the island. Last year's event brought Jack Skellington, Michael Myers, and Alan Wake to the game, and this twelvemonth we've got Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Billy the Puppet from the Saw franchise, Marvel's Mephisto, and adjacent immoderate Disney Villains making an quality among the postulation of Fortnitemare skins coming the next Fortnite update.

Originally acceptable to rotation retired adjacent Tuesday, October 15, Epic Games has brought the Fortnitemares commencement day forward, with the Fortnite Halloween lawsuit present kicking disconnected this Friday, October 11 instead. While it volition beryllium starting a fewer days earlier than planned, it's beauteous overmuch in-line with Fortnitemares 2023 which began connected Tuesday, October 10. Now that the Fortnitemares 2024 commencement day is official, the developer besides released a caller teaser trailer featuring Billy the Puppet, Leatherface, and Mephisto skins, which you tin instrumentality a look astatine below.

There's not an accompanying blog station detailing what to expect for Fortnitemares 2024 conscionable yet – it'll astir apt onshore connected Friday aft the downtime has ended – but we bash person immoderate thought arsenic to what to expect acknowledgment to the accustomed unchangeable of leakers. Here's everything we cognize astir 2024's Fortnitemares truthful far.

When does Fortnitemares 2024 start?

The Fortnitemares 2024 commencement day and time is acceptable for 1pm BST / 8am EDT / 5am PDT connected Friday, October 11. This takes into relationship the downtime that volition hap successful the greeting and is based connected the accustomed 4 hours that servers are offline for.

The past 2 Fortnite updates saw a shorter-than-usual downtime of astir 2 hours, truthful potentially, we could beryllium dropping astatine 11am BST / 6am EDT / 3am PDT but we'll support you posted.

Fortnitemares 2024: what to expect?

As good arsenic the enactment of caller Fortnitemares 2024 skins confirmed truthful far, Epic undoubtedly has much Halloween-themed Fortnite quests up its sleeve, though we astir apt won't find retired precisely what they are until the update goes live. Expect spooky cosmetics and unvaulted items, similar past year's Candy items.

Fortnitemares 2023 saw the instrumentality of weapons similar the Pumpkin Launcher, Wood Stake Shotgun, Thorne’s Vampiric Blade, and according to leaker @Wensoing, the legendary Wood Stake Shotgun, legendary Pumpkin Launcher, and Flowberry Fizz will beryllium this year's drops from the Fortnitemares boss, presently referred to arsenic PB successful the game's files.

@Shiina has besides chimed successful to accidental that we whitethorn spot different Nightmare Before Christmas crossover this year, alongside the Saw collab that's being teased.

The rumoured Friday the 13th crossover is not happening, arsenic confirmed by @ShiinaBR in a much caller tweet, portion chap leaker @Hypex says we whitethorn spot an Anti-Venom tegument which carries connected the Marvel-theme of the current Absolute Doom season.

@Hypex has also teased immoderate upcoming representation changes coming with the Fortnite Halloween update saying there'll beryllium six caller landmarks and that the pursuing POIs volition beryllium changed successful immoderate way:

• Grand Glacier
• Brawler’s Battleground
• Restored Reels

Not to beryllium near out, Lego Fortnite volition beryllium getting a Fortnitemares lawsuit of its own, with the @CraftyPlaysLF sharing the teaser connected Twitter aft the mode got its huge Lost Isles update. We'll stock much details connected that arsenic soon arsenic person much info.